Education Programs

Teachers & Students

Make the museum your classroom by scheduling a school tour at the Museum of Art and Archaeology! Reservations are required!

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Resources

• Scheduling and Planning Docent-led Tours
  including Grade-Level Expectations
    
• Missouri Art, Artists and Artifacts: A Fourth Grade Social Studies Curricular Tour (in Word - 14MB)
   
• Scheduling and Planning Self-led Tours
   
• Online Exhibitions
  include American Regionalism, Final Farewell: The Culture of Death and the Afterlife, Roman Coins, Songs of My People
    
• Lessons Plans: (in Word)
  
  The Writing on the Wall: Exploring Ancient Writing
  Grades K-4, adaptable for higher grades
  
  Community: A Museum Tour
  PreK - 4th Grade
  
  Math in Art? Absolutely!: A Survey of Patterns and Relationships
  K-4, adaptable for higher grades
  
  Portraiture for Kids: Looking at Faces around the Museum
  grades pre-K- 3, adaptable for higher grades
  
  Money! Money! Money!: Ancient Coins
  Grades 2- 7, adaptable for lower and higher grades
   
• Learning to Look Guide (in pdf)
  
  A Learning to Look tour at the Museum of Art and Archaeology is an interdisciplinary tour for K-12th grade students and is designed to meet school curriculum objectives. The tour teaches students how to look at, appreciate, and gain knowledge and insight from art, while at the same time developing cognitive skills. Students are introduced to artifacts, paintings, and sculpture in the Museum’s collections while learning how to use words to describe the works’ visual and tactile qualities, as well as looking at ways the artists have worked with these elements to give their work structure. By becoming familiar with the vocabulary of sensory and formal elements, students will be better equipped to evaluate the composition of a work of art, to understand an artist’s choices in creating that work of art, and to construct meaning for themselves from their own perspective.